This bill amends existing Washington statutes (RCW 28A.300.468 and RCW 28A.655.070) to add procedural requirements for the State Board of Education (SBE) and the Office of the Superintendent of Public Instruction (OSPI) related to computer science and financial education learning standards, graduation requirements, and the statewide assessment system. It requires the SBE to recommend adjustments so students have adequate opportunity to demonstrate competency in foundational computer science and state financial education standards, to consult a broad set of stakeholders, to consider credit and competency-based options for graduation, to collect district information about course offerings and assessments, and to report recommendations to the governor and legislative education committees by December 31, 2026. Certain SBE and OSPI reporting provisions expire August 1, 2027. The act directs OSPI to review and update K–12 computer science standards, review other states’ standards, consult nonprofit experts, and identify foundational standards for grades 9–12 for both computer science and financial education. OSPI must make available a list of instructional materials aligned to the state financial education standards, and school districts must provide all high school students access to financial education (with districts encouraged to grant graduation credit). The superintendent must develop and revise state learning standards and assessments, include a screening for biased content, incorporate concepts of diversity, equity, and inclusion as defined in RCW 28A.415.443, consider needs of special education and highly capable students, post revision schedules by September 1, 2025, notify and submit proposed standards to the SBE for review, and post grade-level expectations provided to assessment vendors within seven working days. This is a procedural and administrative change to existing law, creating new reporting, review, consultation, and transparency requirements and clarifying assessment and standards processes; it does not create a new crime or change criminal penalties. The provided text is incomplete in places: a subsection in RCW 28A.655.070 ends mid-sentence, subsections (1) and (2) referenced are not included here, the party required to provide a November 1, 2019 report is not identified in the excerpt, and the full scope of amendments to the cited RCWs may include additional language not present in these extracts.

If enacted, the state board of education and the superintendent of public instruction would lead a targeted review and likely revision of high school computer science and financial education standards, identify which specific standards are "foundational" for graduation, and make recommendations by the end of 2026 on how those competencies could fit into graduation requirements (including possible credit and competency-based routes). School districts will be asked to report what courses and assessments they currently offer and what they need to implement the recommendations, OSPI will publish lists of financial education instructional materials, and districts must give all 9th–12th graders access to the financial education standards and publicize that access (with districts encouraged, but not required, to offer graduation credit). The groups most affected are school districts, high school students, and teachers: districts may need to add or change courses, publicize offerings, buy or adopt materials, and possibly support additional teacher endorsements for computer science, which could raise staffing and training costs. OSPI and the state board take on new review, reporting, and outreach duties with set deadlines (including a standards revision schedule by September 1, 2025 and reports due December 31, 2026), but the excerpt leaves unclear how any new graduation requirements would be funded, exactly which standards will be designated foundational, and how competency-based options would be implemented; several provisions end mid-sentence or rely on earlier text not provided.